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Show I Friday, October 8, 1993 Whats in a Name? In the beginning. Summit County included m enormous area including land now in several different states. Soon other counties in die territory of Utah were being fonned and states were being des- ignated and Summit County lost a little here and a little there, until (he present borders were permanently made. Summit County was recognized by an act of the Utah Legislature approved Friday, Jan. 13, 1834. The location was thus: That all that section of country bounded north by Oregon, east by west line of Green River County, south by a parallel line forming the eastern boundary of Weber County is and the same shall hereafter be called Summit County and is attached to Great Salt Lake County for elections, revenue and judicial purposes." The name of Summit was given because it occupies the summit of the watershed between Green River drainage and Salt Lake Valley (Great Basin drainage). Just where the boundaries of die different counties were was not known, but March 1861 at die settlement of Chalk Greek (Coalville), William P. Vance, who had been elected probate judge, proceeded to organize the county by the appointment of A.B. Williams, Jacob M. Truman, and William Henefer, Selectmen, with Charles E. Griffin, county desk pro tern, and Wiliam H. Kimball first sheriff of die county. Green River County was apparently divided to form Summit County. The Salt Lake Tribune of OcL 24, 1938 said Out of 10 counties entirely lost to the state of Utah most important (he pioneer history of Utah according to data, compiled by survey workers, was Green River County, located to the northeastern corner of the Territory of Utah. The county comprised all of Daggett and Uinta, Lincoln, and Sweet Water Counties in Wyoming. Summit and part of Rich, if not all, as well as perhaps part of Cache were also in Gren River Comity atone time. Summit County was created Friday, Jan. 13, .1834 making it the thirteenth .county in the Territory. In January, 1836, Cache County was created and Summit County was apparendy divided to form Cache. The next description of Summit County was in 1866 in the State Laws of 1870 said All that portion of the Territory bounded south by Wasatch County, west by Great Salt Lake County, north by Summit of range of mountains forming the upper canyon, East Canyon of East Canyon Creek, thence northerly along die summit of the range of the mountains, between said Creek and Weber River. Thence to and along summit of die highland between plumbar or Lost Creek and Echo Canyon Creeks, thence to and along Summit next north of Yellow Creek to Bear River thence easterly across said river to die summit of the divide between Bear River and the tributaries of the Green River and east by the summit of said range is hereby made and called Summit County, with the county seat at Wanship. ated, there was a question as to the exact line where Summit County ended and Morgan County started. Summit County records state that in June 1872, there was a dispute on the line and by December 1872, Jesse W. Fox made a survey and the line was definitely established. It was shown again that the boundaries were not well established by the trouble between Summit and Rich Counties in 1930. Here die watershed is the division line between the counties for a distance. The question concerned which way the water ran before man turned it, as the land was so level. When the county was divided into three school districts in 1913, die South Summit District did not logically lie in the railroad section but die lines were planned to include in the South Summit District, a piece of railroad at Wasatch Station which furnished considerable tax to die school of the district Rich County went to the Legislature and asked to have the boundary lines definitely established giving Rich County this piece of railroad. Their request was granted. The next year when die railroad received tax notices from both counties, it objected to paying taxes in two counties on the same piece of ground so the problem was brought to light County Attorney P.H. Neeley, acting in legal matters, filed suit against Rich County. It was taken to die State Legislature by county commissioners and they succeeded in getting a delegation of Senators In the early days as well as now, the main road traveled in Summit County was to Salt City. Many supplies and equip- ment for farming came to Summit County from Salt Lake and many return trips woe made with farm produce back to the city. The route was changed a number of times always trying to find an easier way for sometimes snow-tippe- NOTICE TO COALVILLE RESIDENTS .The following persons have filed a declaration of candidacy for the election which is to be held on November 2, 1993. The for the positions of Mayor and two candidates following are follows: as Coundlmembers Mayor (Four Year Term) Vote for One WAYNE HARDY MERLYN JOHNSON CARSTEN MORTENSEN BRUCE RIGBY Coundlmembers: (Four Year Term) Vote for Two PHILLIP C. BRISTOW RENAE B. CRITTENDEN SUSAN DONALDSON HAWS WENDELL NEPHI MOON BLAKE PETERSON MICHAEL PETERSON STEVEN B.RICH1NS non-partis- an . Dated this 22nd day of September, 1993 Geniel G. Bowen, City Recorder i PublbMk The Smmk Corner i I ) Bee October 1& 8. 1993 seen along their trail. In Church Chronology, we find, "On Juty 4, 1830, Parleys Canyon, Uuih was opened for travel under the name of die Golden Pass, Parley P. Pratt, proprietor. The toll was 73 cents for each conveyance drawn by two and 10 cents for each additional wagon, pack or saddle animal. The Neward Rangers, of Kendall County, IL, was the first company to follow Apostle Pratt through the pass, which opened a new road through the mountains from the Weber River to the Great Salt Lake. In Whitneys History of Utah, we find, The statement sometimes made that the Mormon Pioneers on their way from Echo Canyon in July, 1847, entered Parleys Park is error. 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PRICE $21.99 INVITATION TO BID Bids are being solicited by the Summit County Board of County Commissioners for the construction of site and building improvements for the Project indicated below. Summit County Animal Control Facility Project Name: Project Location: Near Silver Creek Junction in the Snyderville Basin, Summit County. Bid documents will be available October 11, 1993, and are to be obtained from the architect. 4 Gilles Stransky Brems Smith 175 So. Main Street Suite 900 Salt Lake City, Utah 84111 (801)521-860- 0 (801)521-791- 3 FAX A deposit of $50.00 per set of documents will be required Owner receiving bid: Summit County Commission Bid Date: Bid Time: Bid Location: Published in Monday, October 25, 1993 1:00 p.m. Summit County Courthouse Commission Chambers 60 North Main Coalville, Utah 84017 The Summit County Bee October 8 & 15, 1993. 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Now there were mountains and more mountains that lay in their pathway, also deep ravines, heavily wooded and with huge rods. In following die streams, sometimes the willows were 20 feet high. These had to be chopped down. In other daces, there was barely room for the stream to flow between the hills or mountains. Leaving East Canyon, the trail turned to die west and crossed anIn 1863 and 1868, challenges other summit. Big Mountain, in the northern boundary lines from the summit of which they were made for die state reducing got their first glimpse of Great die size of die state and Summit Salt Lake Valley. County. Up to this time. Summit Orson Pratt and John Brown, County went quite a distance into riding on horseback ahead of their Wyoming. company, were the first to view After Morgan County was cre the blue and d Oquirrh range, thinly outlined against the western sky. It was from this point that President Brigham Young saw the Salt Lake Valley. Descending Big Mountain was a steep and dangerous slide where the wheels of the wagons were double locked. If they lost their footing, the wagons and teams would rush down to destruction. A few miles further on, to avoid the canyon, they traveled over Little Mountain which rose abruptly. It was so steep the teams could scarcely reach the top. It descended into a deep gorge now known as Emigration Canyon. After reaching the valley, explorers were sent out to find die possibilities of the surrounding country. They were also sent into the canyons to search for trees as very little building timber was u set County Boo Subscribe To The Summit County In the diary of Albert Carington, he tells that he and Captain H. Stansbury left Salt Lake, Aug. 18, 1830. They were surveyors and traveled over a new road to the Weber River. They traveled down Silver Creek and crossed the river where later the ford was placed. He reported that there were many good places for farms on the Weber River bottom. Since the trail of 47 was almost impassible, a better route must be found if possible. However, the new road was also rough and rugged. It would be impossible to estimate the importance as well as convenience of this new route to all who travel to to go over the ground to determine the watershed. The court decided in favor of Rich County but the case was appealed to the Supreme Court of Utah and they decided in favor of Summit County and South Summit School District. So Summit County's borders were definitely Tho Summit 7 |